Dear Empathizers,

Books and learning let us see the world from other times and places. Only ever living in our own place and own time is an impoverished life. Humans are meant to try to understand the world from many other points of view. Books let us do that.

Through books we can imagine what life was like for an African-American family in Flint, MI in 1963; we can imagine what life was like for newly arrived immigrants passing by the Statue of Liberty; we can even imagine what life was like for those First Americans as they tried to chase bison over cliffs using only rocks and their own two legs.

Living the good life is an act of imagination.

Sincerely,

Mr. H